Sentences with phrase «large group effort»

Convergence and Collaboration is a panel discussion between the exhibiting artists working with varied content and media who are part of a larger group effort to run a successful artist collective.

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In 2011, efforts by American Airlines Group Inc. to elude the distribution firms by providing its own schedule and fare data directly to larger online travel agencies triggered a series of lawsuits over access to such data.

While this allows users from one network to communicate with users from another network without having to install multiple IM clients, it may also encourage attackers to concentrate their efforts on these protocols that represent a larger group of users.

Marketing a business to a large and diverse audience may sound like a good idea, but most companies old and new know learn quickly that you're much better off to aim for one specific demographic and then really focus your time, effort, and advertising money on that group.

Regardless of the best efforts of the broader labour movement to improve working conditions for all, a large group is not convinced we are getting the job done.

In papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 milliliters).

He was one of several high - level Colombian criminals hiding out there, and it's suspected his relocation there was part of an effort by his criminal group to expand into Argentina, which has both a large domestic drug market and is the fifth - largest transit point for drugs bound to Europe and Asia, according to the UN.

Usually this initial group of users is small, for the simple reason that if there were something that large numbers of people urgently needed and that could be built with the amount of effort a startup usually puts into a version one, it would probably already exist.

IF you think it's a hassle organising a weekend away for two, imagine the effort required to coordinate international travel itineraries for large corporate groups.

The team thanks Chris from NEO Japan and NEL, China's largest NEO developer group for this effort.

Alibaba Group's founder Jack Ma said Chinese - made counterfeit goods today have gotten better than the genuine article, complicating the effort to root out fakes on the country's largest online shopping services.

It's also in line with Alibaba's larger efforts to transform traditional commerce into a new model, one the group calls «new retail.»

In spite of strained efforts to promote «friendliness,» the social distance separating individuals within the group is large.

The earlier efforts among the Lutherans to unite were further enhanced when in 1960 The Evangelical Lutheran Church (Norwegian), the American Lutheran Church, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church united to form The American Lutheran Church, the third largest group of Lutherans in the United States.

The meeting, the first large - scale effort to address prostitution in Wicker Park, was organized by five neighborhood groups.

Western New York's largest business group, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, once again plans to focus its lobbying efforts on core issues familiar to its members: the high cost of doing business in the state, the need for more trained workers and the importance of encouraging investment in the region.

Rich Beeson, the political director for the Romney campaign, says that the problem wasn't the GOP get - out - the - vote efforts, but the astounding success of the Democrats to turn out groups that generally didn't vote in such large numbers.

Kevin Law, president and CEO of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group, said the investment in the Coliseum and bringing the Islanders back «keeps momentum going toward the effort to develop the Nassau HUB.»

In recent days and weeks, the incumbent has also rolled out a smaller stream of trades groups, uniformed labor and smaller chapters of larger organization, clearly an effort to show his strength among blue - collar voters.

The final recommendation of the All - Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group report «From Awareness to Action: Bringing Behavioural Insights to Poisoning Prevention Efforts», reveals how organising «default» safety requirements and recommendations through large, national bodies is an effective way of highlighting issues to people.

Scharff's group is part of a larger effort called Fair Elections.

Their calculation puts them at odds with four larger groups more directly involved with lobbying efforts to end the ban: the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, Servicemembers United and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

The alliance is hoping to build two new entrances into Prospect Park from Flatbush Avenue, part of a larger effort to spruce up the area between Grand Army Plaza and Empire Boulevard bordering the Prospect Park Zoo, a spokesman from the group said.

Finally, in an effort to simplify and clarify collecting such data, the NIEHS article introduces a classification system to describe a large group of postdocs» career choices.

It is the largest forest restoration project in Forest Service history, an effort borne of years of planning and negotiations among dozens of groups here in northern Arizona.

Some people don't spend enough time with their people describing the expected results, discussing how the group's efforts will pay off down the road for the larger organization, which causes the work to suffer.

The «supermoms» have become a frequent presence in Washington, D.C., in large part thanks to the efforts of the group's co-founder and senior director, Dominique Browning.

THE takeover of the British drugs company Wellcome by its larger rival Glaxo will create a «leaner and fitter» company, but the nation's research effort in pharmaceuticals will suffer, a group of MPs say this week.

The research that led to these findings is part of a larger effort to better understand gene regulation and expression, carried out by the GTEx Consortium, a National Institutes of Health - funded group that includes researchers from around 80 institutions founded in 2010.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

Consider the display in Branson, Missouri, of the world's largest twine ball produced by group effort, a whopping 41.5 feet in circumference.

SKA was first conceived in 90s at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) which established the Large Telescope Working Group to begin a worldwide effort to develop the scientific goals and technical specifications for a next generation radio observatory.

The research concentrates on the interplay of ecology and geography, as well as the expansion of military advancements and forecasts that choice for ultra-social institutions that allow for mutual effort in large groups of genetically unrelated individuals and large - scale sophisticated states, is better where warfare is more extreme.

The majority of your efforts need to be on performing the exercises that work the body's largest and strongest muscle groups.

Little White Lies had a marathon running time that was justified, I think, by a well - meant effort to give room to a large group of central characters.

On Saturday, he'll speak to the nation's largest gay rights group, part of an effort to re-energize the coalition that helped send him to the White House.

A large school or group, for example, wouldnt maximize their profits doing a car wash fundraiser; but for a smaller group, such as a cheerleading squad, that could be a great fundraiser with minimal effort.

«Given the particularly large impacts for Latinos, a group that tends to be underenrolled in preschool programs, efforts to increase the enrollment of Latino children in high - quality prekindergarten programs such as the one studied here may be beneficial,» Weiland added.

The Center on the Developing Child is pleased to participate in the collaborative effort to refine, test, and produce professionally crafted sets of the Brain Architecture game, ready to be played in large - or small - group settings.

Among them, in fact, is the nation's largest test - making organization, the Educational Testing Service (ets) in Princeton, N.J.. Its researchers also are experimenting with computer - based tests, as are researchers at the University of Minnesota, although both groups acknowledge that the military effort has...

The president of Washington's largest teachers» union said the effort had one other positive result: fruitful collaboration between the governor, the Legislature, parents, other education advocacy groups, local school districts and the Washington Education Association, representing teachers.

The bill did not pass — due in large part to enormous efforts from legislators and progressive advocacy groups who oppose using public money to fund private schools.

It's therefore not surprising that small - yet - connected groups have been at the heart of many successful large - scale reform efforts.

Going beyond the token representation of a few students serving on select committees, some schools are involving large groups of their students in school wide problem - solving efforts and strategic planning processes.

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

In schools, these individuals typically work well with large groups of students, know everyone in the school community, have a vested interest in the school culture, and are trusted and well - regarded for their efforts and outcomes.

While those three groups spearheaded the effort, consultants from the nation's two largest teachers unions, members from ACT and the College Board, education experts from 48 states (including Mississippi), and 10,000 public comments all played a role in the final standards, published in 2009.

In support of the film Waiting for «Superman,» Myles helped lead the development of the «Done Waiting» coalition, which with 200 groups, at the time, represented the largest collective effort of education reformers in national history.

Staff agreed to meet for a minimum of 1 hour a month as a large group to work on the school change effort, and 1 hour a week, on average, in smaller and more focused study groups.